Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s response to NYU Skirball’s statement that “The Trial” was cancelled due to its decision to withdraw funds. A stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial,” which was set to debut in New York at the NYU Skirball Center March 7, has been…
It’s been more than a week since the Forward published an article by our investigative reporter, Molly Boigon, detailing her rejected requests for records from the New York Police Department about the spike the city has seen in anti-Semitic hate crimes. In that time, our efforts have been publicly applauded by colleagues at The City,…
Kazimierz, Krakow’s Jewish quarter, was once home to thousands of Jews. Today it boasts seven intact synagogues, a rarity in Eastern Europe, and a vibrant bohemian cafe scene. In its souvenir shops, you can buy tasteful notebooks stamped with the Yiddish alphabet, Instagrammable postcards of fin-de-siècle bourgeois Jewish life, and statuettes of hook-nosed Jews holding…
The two statements were issued hours apart on Friday, one echoing the other in their desire to end the uneasiness in Montclair, N.J. Rabbis and cantors signed one statement. Rabbis, cantors and African-American clergy signed the other. Neither would have been written if a local black leader had not sideswiped the town with comments at…
(JTA) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting state offices from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. South Dakota is the 28th state to have enacted an anti-Israel boycott executive order or legislation. Its measure requires vendors who want to contract with South Dakota agencies, authorities, commissions, departments…
אין זײַנע מאָטיוון האָט דער זשורי געלויבט זייערע פֿאָרשונגען און קונסטפּראָיעקטן וואָס שאַפֿן בריקן צווישן דער ייִדישער און ישׂראלדיקער ליטעראַטור.
(JTA) — The Jersey City kosher store shooters were carrying a bomb in the van they were using that had enough firepower to kill or wound people in an area the size of five football fields. Federal officials on Monday also announced that David Anderson and Francine Graham were in possession of enough materials to…
A sold-out crowd packed the house at the Center for Jewish History — and even filled an overflow room viewing the proceedings on screen — at the third annual Ladino Day in New York, home to the largest Sephardic community in America. Tight security and what speakers described as a “daunting time” for “Jews and…
עם־האָרצות און גראָבקייט זענען אַ צרה אַפֿילו אין די העכסטע רבנישע אינסטאַנצן.
(JTA) — A board game called Secret Hitler was removed from the shelves of three stores in Montreal. Branches of the Tour de Jeux chain removed the game following a call from B’nai Brith Canada. Harvey Levine, B’nai Brith’s regional director in Quebec, told the Montreal Gazette that his office had received complaints from members…
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